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8:36 AM PST on January 15, 2016

    • Charlie Gandy on the power of asking (Pedal Love)
    • Could open data increase bike-share usage? (Shared-Use Mobility Center)
    • Electric charging stations moving ahead in Southern California (NRDC Switchboard)
    • Planning to begin on Burbank HSR station (KHTS)
    • Assemblymember Allen introduces carpool bills (Voice of OC)
    • Is Uber climate friendly? (Clean Technica)
    • Video: Caltrans blows up a boulder (Sacramento Bee)
    • U.K. Labour leader chided for coveting a bike; crowdfunders respond with way more than enough $$ to buy it (Cycling Weekly)
    • Syrian refugees who cycled across border from Russia to Norway will be sent back (Guardian)
    • Prominent Russian official accused of stealing a road (Washington Post)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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